Dusaulx, Jean. De la Passion du Jeu, depuis temps anciens jusqua nos jours. Paris, 1779. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary brown mottled calf, the spine raised and decorated in gilt, morocco title label. Marbled endpapers. Red page edges. Decorative woodcut devices on title page and in text. 8vo. p. [i-v] vi-xxvi, [1] 2-267; [half title], [title], [1] 2-335. First flyleaf (marbled) torn at edge, else exceptionally clean and sturdy. The work has been called the most comprehensive eighteenth-century study of gambling and its effects on society (Milam, Fragonard and the Blindmans Game [1998]).